Invisible pull towards ancestral roots?

Nope. I have ancestors from Kent (where I was born and bred but haven't lived for almost 40yrs), Somerset, Wales, the Forest of Dean, France, Holland, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Portugal and South Africa but I don't feel a pull to any of those places - although I do like Somerset.

paddyann,What a lovely story

No.

Cabbie21 I went to Ireland to where my GM grew up and was amazed at the number of folk with family names and businesses that were names from both sides of GM's family.We had a coversation with a guy in a pub and he told me I looked just like EB ,who lived near him .EB was also my GG 's name .He spoke to her and she confirmed we were related.It was brilliant to meet her and yes there was a family resemblance.

I moved to my present small town to be nearer my grown up children, though we chose the actual location to suit our current and future needs. It not only happens to be not so very far from the village where I grew up and left at the age of 18, but I vaguely knew my mother’s parents came from this area originally. My mum is long dead, and her parents died when she was very young, so I was in no way influenced by them, but delving into family history, I have discovered loads of connections with this area, family graves in the next village, my grandfather’s cousin actually was living in this town for a while.
So far I have not found any living relatives but I know there must be many. Uncanny, as my mum never knew she had relatives living not far from her in her lifetime.

I've always felt an affinity with the NE, especially with the coastal town where I grew up. Blyth, which now has a negative reputation but I still feel I belong there.
I think part of it is the accent, the dialect, the special sense of humour born from the tough life of coalminers and seamen.

I have felt this way about Sussex. But I was born and grew up in the county. I knew that the house I grew up in had been lived in by my great grandmother and then left to my paternal grandmother who gifted it to my parents. Both sets of grandparents lived in Sussex too, gravitated there by the pull of the solitary grandchild (me?) so I guess my pull has been easier to explain!
I had 2 of my 3 AC in Sussex. But was forced by circumstances, to move when they were tiny. I felt drawn to move back again to Sussex a few years ago, but now due to my own ill health, have to again consider moving away and nearer to family and in a different but still lovely coastal county?

my OH always believed his ancestry was Scottish for generation back.We went on holiday to Ireland and he said he felt he had "come home" this was before computers making root searches easy .Fast forward 25 years and we discovered his 2x great GF had come from the very place we had visited.We've been back many times now and he gets homesick when we leave .Not exactly scientific but just one story .

There are a couple of villages that always fill me with peace and a quiet sort of joy. Until I did my family tree I had no idea that all of my fathers forebearers had lived in them both since at least the 17th century.

However, my research also shows me many other areas on my mothers side that I have no fondness for at all.
I think that I just like the two villages for the lovely places that they are.

What about the evidence that this does not happen. You work out the probabilities of your theory you have to look at the evidence for both possibilities.